Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#1
Posted: 7/15/15 at 11:17amUpdated On: 7/15/15 at 11:17 AM
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#2
Posted: 7/15/15 at 11:20am
I'm surprised Carole King wasn't a KCH honoree already...Good for her!
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#3
Posted: 7/15/15 at 11:22am
It's about time Rita got hers! It's been long overdue! She did however receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bush in 2004.
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#4
Posted: 7/15/15 at 11:54am
I wonder if we'll be seeing Jessie Mueller, Katie Brayben, Chilina Kennedy, and/or Abby Mueller during Carole King's tribute...
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#5
Posted: 7/15/15 at 3:02pm
I wonder if they'll mention Googie Gomez during Rita's tribute...
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#6
Posted: 7/15/15 at 3:09pm
Let's be real, none of the homos at the Kennedy Center knew who Carole King was until there was a Broadway musical about her. I was one of them. 
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Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#7
Posted: 7/15/15 at 3:11pm
^Really? You're probably pretty young then!
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Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#8
Posted: 7/15/15 at 3:13pm
Also just realized there are 6 nominees this year instead of the usual 5!?
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Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#9
Posted: 7/15/15 at 3:26pm
A good group of nominees. Interesting that there are 6 this year. The only disappointment each segment will be shorter on the broadcast this year.
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#10
Posted: 7/15/15 at 5:32pm
Also, they are not nominees. There are six honorees this year (instead of the usual 5).
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#11
Posted: 7/15/15 at 8:59pm
Yay Carole!
Updated On: 7/15/15 at 08:59 PMCicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#12
Posted: 7/15/15 at 9:03pm
I am constantly amazed at how many young folks don't know that Carole King was such a pioneer of rock and roll, girl groups, and the whole singer/ songwriter movement. I've had the pleasure of meeting her a few times and the woman actually freaking glows from within--she has such an amazing aura.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#13
Posted: 7/15/15 at 9:44pm
Betcha John Williams gonna play for LucasFilm.
(Dum Dum Da Da Da DUM DUM....)
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#14
Posted: 7/16/15 at 12:23am
The only thing I knew about Carole King was that she sung the Gilmore Girls theme song. But then Beautiful came out and a month later I downloaded four of her albums! I love her. I entered the contest they are putting on to attend the show, I doubt I'll be one of the three that they will pick but it would be amazing to go instead of watching it on tv!
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#15
Posted: 7/16/15 at 1:43am
What contest?
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#16
Posted: 7/16/15 at 8:20am
A really great group of honorees this year!
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Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#17
Posted: 7/16/15 at 8:27am
Younger people really only know of Carole King because of BEAUTIFUL?! Really?? As previously mentioned, she was a pioneer in the singer-songwriter genre and one of the very first prominent, independent female songwriters (following her divorce).
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Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#18
Posted: 7/16/15 at 12:24pm
A) Yeah, I'm 23 and pre-Beautiful I only knew Carole because of the Gilmore Girls theme song and You've Got A Friend (which I primarily knew as a James Taylor song).
B) About time for Rita Moreno! She finished her EGOT almost 40 years ago! (1977)
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#19
Posted: 7/16/15 at 12:26pm
"A) Yeah, I'm 23 and pre-Beautiful I only knew Carole because of the Gilmore Girls theme song and You've Got A Friend (which I primarily knew as a James Taylor song).
B) About time for Rita Moreno! She finished her EGOT almost 40 years ago! (1977)"
...and in that 40 year span she's won numerous other awards! This is just one more to add to the mantle!
Just last year she won a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award.
Updated On: 7/16/15 at 12:26 PMCicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#20
Posted: 7/16/15 at 12:32pm
The Eagles? Gimme a break- and Cicely Tyson? Thrown in because she is old and black- plenty more deserving actors out there- Jane Fonda could have gotten Tyson's spot- and as for The Eagles- with Carole King as a nominee- another nominee from the world of dance could have taken the place- sounds like a more commercial Kennedy Centers Awards than in the past.
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#21
Posted: 7/16/15 at 12:36pm
"The Eagles? Gimme a break- and Cicely Tyson? Thrown in because she is old and black- plenty more deserving actors out there- Jane Fonda could have gotten Tyson's spot- and as for The Eagles- with Carole King as a nominee- another nominee from the world of dance could have taken the place- sounds like a more commercial Kennedy Centers Awards than in the past."
Oy!
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#22
Posted: 7/16/15 at 4:23pm
"the woman actually freaking glows from within"
She should have that checked.
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#23
Posted: 7/16/15 at 10:39pm
Not all young people. I'm in my twenties and I knew who Carole King was long before Beautiful. Of course, I'll admit that before listening to Tapestry I knew some of her songs that don't get as much radio play from American Idol Carole King nights and the like.
Cicely Tyson, Rita Moreno and Carole King named 2015 Kennedy Center Honorees#24
Posted: 7/17/15 at 5:58am
Although I can always think of some deserving people this is a brilliant lineup. Huge congratulations to all!
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